Improvement in straw-cutters



THQMASE. MARABLE.

Improvement in Straw Cutters.

Patented Apfil16,1872.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

THOMAS E. MARABLE, OF PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO STARK A. PLUMMER, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN STRAW -CUTTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 125,822, dated April 16, 1872.

Specification describing an Improved Feed- Outter, invented by THOMAS E. MARABLE, of Petersburg, Dinwiddie county, Virginia.

This invention consists in the combination, in the manner hereinafter described, of two blades, one reciprocating in a curve and the other hbrizontally, the former being rigidly attached to one arm of an elbow-lever, and the latterbeing pivoted to the extremity of the other arm of said lever, so that both blades are worked by the same lever.

Figure 1 is a perspective View, and Fig. 2is a side elevation.

A is the elbow-lever aforesaid, the same being pivoted at a to an offset, N, of the front horizontal plate I) of the machine-frame. The upper blade 0 is rigidly attached to the under side of the lever A in such a position that it will work across the end of the trough d, which holds the feed. The under blade d is jointed at one end to the lower extremity of the lever A, said blade resting on a ledge formed lengthwise of the plate I), and playing in grooves formed crosswise of the otl'sets b b of said plate, being held in' said grooves'by means of the elbow-lever A at one end, and at the other end by means of a socket, e, attached to the offset D which socket also holds the lever A when turned down into a horizontal position. Either or both of the blades may be serrated along the edge, if preferred. WVhen the lever A is worked, the blade 0 at every stroke shuts down past the blade d, making a drawing out in the same manner as a scissors-blade, and the blade (1, reciprocating horizontally, assists the blade 0 in severin g the feed.

I claim as my invention- The combination of the elbow-lever A with the blade 0, attached directly to the lever A so as to work like scissors, and with the blade 01, pivoted at one end to the extremity of the elbow-lever, so as to reciprocate horizontally in connection with the blade 0, all as specified.

T. E. MARABLE.

Witnesses:

GEO. E. BROWN, NATHAN K. ELLSWORTH. 

